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The first COBR meeting took place in the 1970s to oversee the government's response to the 1972 miners' strike. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Other events that have led to meetings being convened include the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege , the 11 September 2001 attacks , the July 2015 presence of migrants in and around Calais , [ 9 ] and the COVID-19 pandemic .
Downing Street is expected to hold a Cobra emergency response meeting on Monday after “thugs” tried to storm hotels housing asylum seekers on the sixth day of escalating disorder.
Temperatures are predicted to climb over the weekend and into next week, the Met Office has said.
Royal Mail staff, nurses, paramedics, rail employees and Border Force officials will all stage walkouts over jobs, pay and conditions.
The Civil Contingencies Committee is a British cabinet committee chaired by the Home Secretary.It is intended to deal with major crises such as terrorism or natural disasters.
In the aftermath of the Y2K bug scare, the fuel protests of 2000, flooding in autumn 2000, and the foot and mouth epidemic of 2001 the UK government felt that the existing emergency management policies and structures were inadequate to deal with natural or man-made disasters, and formed the Civil Contingencies Secretariat in July 2001, located in the Cabinet Office.
Education minister Robert Halfon told LBC it is a “fearful time” for British Jews as tensions have risen since Hamas’s wave of bloodshed launched on Israel on October 7.
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) is a law passed by the U.S. Congress on a reconciliation basis and signed by President Ronald Reagan that, among other things, mandates an insurance program which gives some employees the ability to continue health insurance coverage after leaving employment.